Load the WOW control with your content

So now you have created your content and the EzStor file and added your content to it.  Now its time to display it in your application.  This is actually the easiest part.  If the name of the WOW control you created in step 3 is Wow1, and the sample.hsp EzStor file is in the same folder as your application, then this is how you would load the page at runtime:

The links in the webpage can open a new IE browser window or an email message.  But one of the most powerful features of the WOW control is its ability to pass mouse click events (or any event) from the webpage through to your application code as an event.  This is absolutely critical for embedded webbrowser control programming.  For example, clicking on a customer name link in the above form will fire an event in the application code, passing the customer ID so the application can take appropriate action.

If you wanted to view a single customer, you could pass a querystring to display_cust.asp for the script code to pick up.

Conclusion

As you have seen, its easy to integrate webbrowser controls in Windows applcations.  The WOW control has many enhancements and extensions to the standard webbrowser control that are crucial to successful webbrowser control programming.  Using HSP with WOW allows you to generate HTML dynamically in your application using standard ASP.  And using EzStor allows you to package up all of your ASP/HTML/graphic content into a single file for easy and secure distribution.

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